Kevin Kelly: Making My Own Music
Kevin Kelly, in a New York Times Op-Ed: “As Jack Valenti, the chairman of the [MPAA], has pointed out, digitizing films is expensive. “Who is going to digitize these public domain movies?” he asks. I have an answer: movie buffs. Not only have fans moved almost all of music into the digital era, they have been busy moving hundreds of millions of documents onto the Web [...]. And without the help of paralyzed publishers, avid readers have already converted nearly 20,000 books in the public domain. The passion of fans is unstoppable – and technology will make it only more so. [...] Yet instead of seeing this new force as a positive development, corporate copyright holders view it as something that must be quashed.” (Via Mark Frauenfelder.)